“We have to make our own opportunities, because men aren’t going to do it for us,” Alicia V. Carr from Atlanta declared during her keynote the first morning of Women Techmakers MTL. She should know - at 51, she taught herself Objective C, and used it to build an iOS app to combat domestic violence. […]

DCMTL Blog attended Ford Canada’s Go Small, Live Big panel, hosted by Jean-Benoit Aubé. The panel took place as part of the launch of the all-new 2018 EcoSport® - Ford's latest Fun, Capable and Connected compact SUV, and featured three of Central District most dynamic entrepreneurs Marc-Antoine Bovet, Co-founder of OatBox, Marie-Philip Simard Founder of […]

DCMTL was recently in Lisbon, Portugal to attend the Web Summit, an annual tech conference that attracts tech innovators from all over the globe. When we heard that MERRY JANE CEO and Co-Founder Ted Chung was scheduled to give a talk, we jumped at the chance to interview him - after all, he's one of […]

This week we thought it would be interesting to tell the story of District Central, and find out just how this area came to be the burgeoning startup incubator that it is today. Interestingly enough, through our research, we found that the area has really always been the ideal place for startups to call home. […]

We are proud to be featured in the Financial Post! -- Financial Post: SMALL BUSINESS Denise Deveau | October 17, 2016 An interesting coincidence took place when Jeff Ekstein attended a networking event. The president and CEO Willow Printing Group Ltd. ran into a graphic designer who once worked for him. The address on his […]